😳 German Foreign Ministry Labels Israel “Occupying Power” in Golan Heights

Berlin has urged Tel Aviv to abandon any plans to double the population in the occupied and annexed Golan Heights.

“It is perfectly clear under international law that this area controlled by Israel belongs to Syria and that Israel is therefore an occupying power,” foreign ministry spox Christian Wagner said.

An “occupying power” that Germany is happy to arm to the teeth…

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⚠️ JUST IN: Scholz loses no-confidence vote against him, triggering early German elections on February 23

Scholz gained just 207 votes in the 733-seat parliament, nowhere near the 367 majority he needed to hold onto power.

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☠️ Uncle Sam Wants His Slice of the Pie…

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🤔 Vatican 'on Verge of Bankruptcy’ (Express)

The latest financial statements showed the Vatican ran an operating deficit of €83mn in 2023 - after a slump in donations from Catholic Churches since COVID.

The growing financial crisis means the world’s smallest country may not be able to meet its pension obligations.

Currently the pension fund for the Vatican is estimated to be a staggering €631mn in the red.

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🔴 Trump on TikTok ban: "We'll take a look at TikTok”

“I have a warm spot in my heart for TikTok because I won youth by 34 points."

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🛸 JUST IN: Trump says “something strange is going on” with mystery drones spotted over New Jersey - adding that “the government knows what’s happening”

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❌ NEW: Trudeau considering his options as PM after Freeland quits cabinet (CTV)

Will Trudeau be the next leader to get Zelensky’d?

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❌ Israel’s Annihilation of Northern Gaza

This is not Hiroshima after the atomic bomb - this is the Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza.

Genocide.

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🤔 The United States of Israel?

Jeffrey Sachs: “In 2011, Obama ordered the CIA to topple Syrias govt. It doesn’t really matter who’s president.”

Tucker Carlson: “Why did he do that?”

Jeffrey Sachs: “Because Israel runs our foreign policy.”

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⚠️Turkey Set to Invade Syria, US Officials Fear - WSJ

US officials are concerned Turkey may be planning to invade Syrian territory held by Kurdish forces, citing a troop buildup near the border.

Ankara views Kurdish groups and the Syrian Democratic Forces, which control northeast Syria, as an extension of the banned PKK -
Kurdistan Workers’ Party.

“If Turkey proceeds with its invasion, the consequences will be catastrophic,” one Kurdish official told The Journal.

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🎯 JUST IN: Swedish Energy Minister Ebba Busch Lambasts Germany's "Weather-Dependent" Energy Production - and the negative impact of “volatile renewables” on power prices in neighboring countries

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☠️ Nothing Screams “Defensive Alliance” Like Calling for War

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🔴 China Accuses UK of “Twisted Mentality” in Wake of Alleged Royal Spy Scandal

The UK should “immediately stop creating trouble,” a spox or China’s embassy has said.

The statement made on Tuesday said that “anti-China clamours made by a handful of UK MPs” have “revealed their twisted mentality towards China.”

It also accused them of trying to “smear China” and “undermine normal personnel exchanges between China and the UK.”

Yang Tengbo, who had a close business relationship with Prince Andrew, was named on Monday as an alleged Spy for Beijing - after a London High Court judge lifted an anonymity order.

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